Otho F. Strahl

Otho French Strahl (3 June 1831-30 November 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Otho French Strahl was born in Morgan County, Ohio in 1831 to a family of German descent, with his great-great-grandfather emigrating to Pennsylvania from Germany in 1755. Strahl graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and became a lawyer in Tennessee, supporting states' rights. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, Strahl raised a local infantry company for the Confederate States Army, turning against his home state in favor of his adoptive state of Tennessee. He was promoted to colonel after the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, and he took over Alexander P. Stewart's brigade in June 1863 after Stewart was promoted. Strahl fought at Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Atlanta in 1863-1864, and he was shot in the neck and twice more in the head during the Battle of Franklin, one of six Confederate generals to die in that battle.